“If RSS is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blog Google’s?”

Written by Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Though answer is in a book I wrote this July, question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay in Google indefinitely?

Well, let’s take one question at a time. The answer to whether you can blog your way into Google search results is yes, sometimes in six weeks, often in 24 hours.

Yes, you read right, in less than 24 hours. Under certain conditions, search engines actually want you to succeed at this.

I’m aware that these statements may cause some controversy, but that won’t make them any less factual. Since September, Google has been set up to show you proof of this, which we’ll go over in part two. My new blog has been spidered daily since day it was created.

Not only is this possible with your blog, way that blogs are set up make them one of most conducive web site mediums to attract more traffic from multiple sources quickly. The trick to getting this to work for you, is in understanding which conditions have to be met first.

And we’ll come back to that shortly. First let’s talk about what’s typically wrong with process most people take to get their sites listed.

Most people submit their sites to Google and wait six to eight weeks to see if they were included. Other people know that fastest way to be spidered is to leave your link at a site that is already getting spidered.

But even among those people, when they don’t see their site in Google exactly way they’d like, they give up, and say it didn’t work.

So what went wrong?

The place that majority of people go wrong is in trying to trick Googlebot into thinking their site matches its standards for inclusion for their desired high traffic keyword, instead of aligning themselves with purpose that search engine fills.

You may think that if you study all search engine tricks, you’ll have traffic from search engines and it will then follow that yours will be site people come to for keyword they want, which in turn, will get 1% of those people to buy what’s at your site.

If you think that, I’m not here to tell you that you’re wrong - sometimes that works. I’m just saying that there are other easier, faster, less expensive ways. Some of them only have subtle differences from way you know.

The truth is, even if we could somehow reverse engineer secret Google algorithm, it periodically changes. So mastering that system would be temporary, even if you could do it.

Did you know that you don’t even need traffic for your most desired keyword to be successful? You just need some targeted traffic that converts well. Some of most financially successful sites generate amazing profits in tens or hundreds of thousands with a few hundred or thousand visitors every month.

The method I most suggest to kind of search engine results that can power those kinds of sales, is aligning your site with purpose search engine wants to fill. It is faster, more effective and involves far less effort.

Beginners - Getting Listed In Search Engines

Written by Jean Sutherland

Once you have your web site complete and ready to be listed you need to take a slow step by step approach to get listed in search engines. If you do it right first time and then build on that formula, your profits and your site will benefit in long run. Those willing to spend time and put these techniques into practice are ones that will benefit and are more likely to be successful.

1. Your first page is where search engines will start and making sure that this page is fully optimized is one of your first goals. What's optimization your ask? It's making your site as search engine friendly as possible. You will also see people refer to this in short form of SEO.

Your first step is TITLE TAG. This is one item that search engines look for to start getting information about what your site is about. It is also what search engines will show above a clickable line on their results page. It is also a major consideration of where you will rank when certain inquiries are made of search engine. TITLE TAGS are one of major things to concentrate on and to make sure that you get it right. Doing so will result in not only better placement in search engine, but enticing descriptions will also result in more people clicking on your link and visiting your site.

Take a look at what your competition is doing in order to get some ideas for your site. To see their TITLE TAG go to their web site and in IE or Netscape click on View then Source and you will be able to see their TITLE TAG. Don't copy theirs, but let this help you get some ideas for your own site.

2. Putting keyword phrases into your pages - Finding perfect set of keywords for your web pages and knowing right keywords to use is very important because your site should provide people with what they are looking for. A free program to help you can be found at: http://www.goodkeywords.com Good Keywords makes use of various tools provided by search engines like Yahoo, Google, Teoma and other services like Alexa. Using Good Keywords makes it all very simple, fast and straight forward. Just remember...don't over do it or you will be penalized.

3. Writing your web page copy - Your next step is to incorporate those keywords into copy on your web site. This is extremely important as search engines need to see these keywords on your page so they can then analyze these words and decide where your site should be listed in their categories. Write your content around keywords and use them as many times as possible, keeping in mind though...that it is not just a search engine that is reading copy but also your visitor.

4. META TAGS - Meta tags provide search engines with information about content and purpose of a Web site. A Web site that uses meta tags to best of their ability will appear more often in search results and will also be seen closer to top on those search results. Many people feel that stuffing keywords into meta tags will help improve their rankings. The original idea behind meta tags was to give a way to classify web site. The problem now is that many engines don't consider meta tags to be as relevant to ranking, therefore they give them less weight overall because of keyword stuffing techniques used. That's not to say that you still shouldn't use meta tags, just consider to use them for what they were originally intended - that is to give your site an accurate title and description with a few keywords (3 or 4 phrases max) outlining what page, or site is about.

5. ALT TAGS - The ALT tag or 'alternative text' is an attribute of IMG tag. (Any graphic on your web site) An ALT tag should be included for every image within your web site. The ALT tag provides an alternate message to your viewers who can't see your graphics. Without ALT tags, images on a web site are meaningless to these users. If you will be using a graphic menu systems for navigation, these alternate messages are an especially important aid to users without ability to see your graphics. Adding an appropriate ALT tag to every image within your web site will make a huge difference to accessibility of your web site. Also, for those who use Yahoo and Google image searches, your ALT Tags can be very important and will help bring traffic to your site. Take for instance one of my sites - http://www.spasoftheworld.com I have loads of graphics of different resort spas and graphics all carry name of resort. People looking for information on this resort may easily end up at my website because I names a picture with name of resort.